I went to high school with Dawn DeFeo whose brother Butch killed her and the rest of her family while they slept. It was so unusual at the time that it made national headlines and stayed front page news in our local newspapers for months. That was even before the skanky George & Kathy Lutz moved in to moneygrub off a family tragedy. They wrote the ghoulishly moronic book Amityville Horror, full of green ooze, red pig eyes and other nonsense. Morons ate it up and it launched a Hollywood franchise.

Nowadays family murders happen so often they’re just a blurb on the side of a page. “Teen kills mom, dad, sibs” is all you get. “Dad mows down family,” “Despondent parent drives family off cliff into ocean.”

In 1970s such murders were so rare it was believed something supernatural must have occurred.

Anyway, Dawn was a nice kid. She didn’t deserve for her death to become mass entertainment for stupid twats.

PS - my husband later had a client who lived in the house years after the murders took place. Nothing unusual ever happened in the house and it was a really lovely place.